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THE GARDA STRIKE was called off last night and after it was agreed to put a ballot to members.
GRA president Ciarán O’Neill welcomed the improved offer saying one aspect which was especially welcome was that the pay increases would not be introduced on a phased basis but instead would be implemented straight away.
Here’s a breakdown of what’s on the table:
O’Neill told Morning Ireland that the government was to blame for bringing the talks to the wire.
He said: “It was a tight margin and down to the fact it was put down to the wire. One can only blame the government for not utilising state agencies. This notification for action came out on 28 September.
The Government had five weeks to deal with it but they left it to the last minute. They were dragging their heels”
While some media reports this morning claim the Government threatened that martial law would be implemented on the strike days, O’Neill would not confirm the specifics of what was said.
However, he did say there were fears for the security of the State.
Speaking on RTÉ, assistant garda commissioner Michael O’Sullivan said: “We had a contingency plan yesterday, which we suspended at 7am this morning, in which we had a particular deployment of personnel throughout the country, and at no stage did martial law appear in the plan at all, nor was it necessary.”
Meanwhile, the GRA took out a full page ad in national newspapers showing a garda who was attacked in the line of duty.
It reads: “Eight years ago, Garda Helena Power was repeatedly kicked in the face until her eye socket fractured. She’s still suffering pay cuts.”
The ad was timed to coincide with the first day of historic garda strikes.
It was intended to show what officers face every day and why they deserve the pay increases.
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McAfee is like a real life Hank Scorpio
Breaking news: John McAfee to change his surname to ‘Intel- Security’.
His comment is priceless
In fairness he’s right too, constant pop ups, overpriced, and bloatware. Hate McCrapffe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg
How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus
Haha that’s some of the maddest shizzle I ever did see..I love him!
It’s a real killer though.
Nothing will put me off purchasing a new laptop / desktop than the sales guy saying “and it comes with anti virus software pre-installed”
not difficult to uninstall, don’t let that put you off.
Seems like the man himself is a virus
Such wit hiding behind that beard. Who’d have guessed?
I thank McAfee because they are the best at putting viruses on my computer and then even better at protecting me from that same virus ..
Ever notice how your computer always got infected just before your subscription was up ?
Same with norton, I have no virus protection on my comp and heyyyyyy gues what no viruses. Companys cteate them to get then to buy their bullshit
That’s just such bullshit, Dave! Too many AVP’s are resource heavy but very few are designed with any sort of malicious intent, esp the popular ones!
Too may people becoming stupidly cynical about these things. There are literal craptonnes of dedicated and independent communities that test, monitor and disassemble AV softwares in order to find out their true efficacy. And nobody has yet proven it to be true for the biggest players, barring Norton a few years ago with the whole ‘PIFTS.exe’ thing; when they attempted to censor people who found potentially dangerous flaws in the software.
Complacency is by far the most dangerous thing when it comes to security, be it online or personal, You may not require any third party protection, but for every one of you there are a hundred that really do, and if they decide to go without it then no matter how careful *you* are; you’ll be subjected to the inadequacies in and lackadaisical ‘use’ of resources by others.
He’s the sort of crazy SOB I’d want associated with my company
So who is more excited with the name change?
He killed his neighbour? That’s real cyber crime
Belize is in Central America.
Isn’t that where Mike went on ‘vacation’ in Breaking Bad?!!!
His comments are a bit harsh. Symantec is the worst software on the planet. McAfee only gets silver.
Check out YouTube video I posted here, it’s very funny. It’s not a vid on how to uninstall, it’s mcafee himself taking the pi#s
Watched it, it’s hilarious!!
That McAfee antivirus kills anything that gets in its way…..
He is really chuck norris stupid evil twin
McAfee ? anti virus ? What are these of which you speak…..
I laughed so much at his spectacular comment! Brilliant!
They’d wanna do more than just change the name
Now that’s what you call a well lived in face if ever I saw one.
You’d think he could afford better highlights too.
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